Biden seeks to return Voice of America to propagating liberalism

 Monica Showalter:

Biden's Wednesday night massacre at Voice of America

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 Pack and his allies had only been in office for about five months of a three-year appointment before Biden demanded his resignation. President Trump didn't pay a lot of big attention to what was going on there given that he had other fish to fry, and in any case, might have been in the dark. Democrats, though, and a few Republicans, had stalled his confirmation in the Senate for about three years, while Obama-era holdouts, who should have been out on Day One of the Trump administration, somehow held on, as bitter clingers to power.

The press screamed that Pack, an experienced filmmaker, was destroying journalistic standards and making VOA a mouthpiece for President Trump's policies (which sounds like a good idea, but never mind that). It hailed Amanda Bennett, the leftist VOA director who had finally been dislodged, as the epitome of journalistic standards, which she sort of was, as journalism is practiced today, the kind that has put it in such low public regard. 

Bottom line, the attacks on Pack were garbage, and in fact, precisely the opposite of what was going on.

Pack went to work to restore journalistic standards there to just basic facts with less bias. A South Asian branch of the service had been literally running Biden campaign propaganda courting Muslim voters as straight news -- got investigated and shut down, with firings. Meanwhile, the world's dissidents, from Iran, China and other hellholes unexpectedly erupted into cheers at Pack's arrival given that the VOA had been broadcasting mullah and ChiCom propaganda for years by "reporters" who seemed to them like infiltrators, given their pro-ChiCom and pro-mullah bias. There were also sex scandals and lawsuits and problems with VOA's openly Trump-hating White House correspondent, Steve Herman, whose Trump-hate made him make a fool of himself.

Pack though, was forced out, despite his three-year tenure as chief of an independent agency, on Day One, in a very unusual move by the minions associated with President Joe Biden. Pack's lieutenants were out, too.

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There is much more.

I think this is about returning the VOA to being a propaganda arm for the evils of liberalism and Democrats rather than providing positive information about America.  They want it to be more like the Washington Post than Fox News.